For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for 15 years.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

We need a president who will choose to do what’s best for the country, even when it doesn’t personally benefit them.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Above anything else, I hate to lose.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those were the questions that were being pounded on me through the campaign. A lot of times, I wondered what in the world Barack was even getting us into.

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

Surface R&B doesn’t work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show – that’s not really where it’s at any more. It’s becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

It’s never crowded along the extra mile.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

When I checked into SEAL Team One many years ago, one of the things that I noticed was there was this old guy, who was younger than I am today, who I decided that I was going to be like. I wanted to emulate what he was doing, and one of those things was he got to work before anybody else.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

Listen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

I always tell people that you should only hire people to be on your team if you would work for them.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

People want you to fail.

Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‚Jolene‘ was a big hit.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

It’s time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.